knowledge-reader

knowledge-reader is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator. It costs 26 tokens per session (662 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide for reading a repository's pre-built knowledge base before coding. A repository is the project's files and history, while the knowledge base records its conventions, architecture, and testing practices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find repository conventions, understand system design and APIs, check approved dependencies, and choose suitable verification steps.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of making changes that conflict with how the project is structured or tested.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator/knowledge-reader
Any agent
npx skills add doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator --skill knowledge-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 662 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00026 $0.00662
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00331
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00066

Measured 4d ago against content hash a6746ae0a9e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

knowledge-reader scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/knowledge-reader/SKILL.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Knowledge Base Reader

You have access to a pre-built Knowledge Base (KB) for the target repository. The KB index path and KB directory are listed in the Pre-flight section of your prompt — read the KB index first to see what categories are available.

The KB is a structured graph of markdown documents organized into categories. Each category has an index file and detailed leaf files. Start by reading the KB index, then use the KB directory path to read specific leaf files relevant to your task.

When to Read KB Leaf Files

Consult the KB before you:

Situation Read from these KB categories
Write or modify code conventions/ — read the index, then leaf files for error handling, naming, code style
Write or modify tests verification/ + conventions/ — test patterns, test infrastructure, testing conventions
Make architectural decisions architecture/ — components, data flow, key abstractions
Use or extend APIs api-surface/ — services, client libraries, config schemas
Add dependencies dependencies/ — approved libraries, version constraints
Set up verification steps verification/ — test suites, CI pipeline, verification order

How to Navigate

  1. Read the KB index from the path listed in Pre-flight — it shows the category map, build commands, key architecture decisions, and important file paths
  2. Identify which categories are relevant to your current task using the table above
  3. Read the category's index.md first (e.g., <KB Directory>/conventions/index.md) to discover the actual leaf filenames — these vary per repo
  4. Read the relevant leaf files based on what the category index lists
  5. Only read what you need — typically 2-4 leaf files per task

Category Overview

Category What it covers
architecture/ Component maps, data flow patterns, dependency injection modules, key abstractions, concurrency and persistence models
conventions/ Error handling patterns (including error grading), naming conventions, testing patterns, code style, logging and context propagation
api-surface/ gRPC services, CLI tools, client library API, configuration schemas, environment variables, Kafka event contracts
dependencies/ Go library inventory, build tools (Task, Bazel, etc.), runtime services (Cassandra, CRDB, Kafka), version constraints
verification/ Unit test patterns, integration test infrastructure, CI pipeline, linting rules, recommended verification order

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 49 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A a6746ae0a9e8

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knowledge-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository doordash-oss/agentic-orchestrator (101 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 662 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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